Epano Zakros

Just outside the village of Epano Zakros an LM I building was excavated
in the 1960s. Unfortunately the building was seriously damaged by the construction
of the modern road from Epano Zakros to Kato Zakros, where the palace is
to be found. The original building had at least three terraces. On the lowest
terrace there are scant remains of room 1, which contained a wine press.
The fact that fresco fragments had fallen into this room from above suggests
that the villa had some luxuriously decorated upper rooms. The rooms from the second terrace are rooms 3 and 2, with a drainage channel. Beyond these
rooms are rooms 4 and, with a pillar in the centre, room 6. Room 6 was
a large storeroom which contained eight large pithoi, on one of which was
found a Linear A inscription. The third terrace was unfortunately badly
damaged by the building of the road and little now remains.